Filler Words - Don't ignore/remove unless they can be cleanly removed
under consideration
Belief Hole Podcast
Agreed! We need the same thing with silence removal. Right now, the shorten silence tool also cuts laughs and unrecognized speech, making it pretty useless for multi-person podcasts. We need a 'if it can't be cut cleanly - leave it alone' option for these feaetures.
Anne Metz
Yes! Totally agree.
Sagnik Datta
Very upset with the lifetime uses on the free plan starting 2nd july… descript realized the value of removing filler word and now wants to arm twist free tier users to upgrade… sigh, am just a student who is trying to play around with descript and liked how it was like canva but now they have disappointed me before i could become raving fan of this product. descript’s loss
Canny AI
Merged in a post:
Smoother Filler Words
Robin Dean
This is one of those features that, because I don't think it exists, I'm probably going to cancel my account and move on.
Here's the deal. I'm in just enough of a hurry that no, I don't want to listen to every filler word and decide if removing it will sound bad.
I'm aware that I can simply "delete all" ... and that WOULD BE extremely useful IF it didn't make some of the removals sound jarringly bad.
WHAT I WANT:
A filter that basically says "If there's not a minimum of [x] milliseconds BEFORE the filler word, leave it alone.
You could also add an "after" filter or a "before/after" kind of thing ... but BEFORE is of great importance as it keeps the sound smoother, ie more natural.
Gabe Michalski
Merged in a post:
word remover
Alexis Kenyon
I have found that the automatic word removal doesn't make cuts where it should. Rather than cutting at the very beginning of the word and leaving the entire breath for the preceding word, it cuts in the middle of the words so the breaths are always kind of chopped in half. Could we adjust this?
Alan Armijo
When I hide a filler word, there is always a "," before the striked / struck out "uh". I have to go in and remove that coma for every hidden filler word. Can the coma be hidden as well as the filler word? Alan Armijo
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Soul University
In similar fashion - when using a find / replace function - where the replace is blank (as in - remove the word) - remove both the text and the audio. Currently - the text removal happens just fine. The audio - however - remains.
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StewartBell
I absolutely agree with this.
I love being able to cut out the dead wood, but the transitions can sometimes be messy due to how rough-cut it is.
Major Editing
ABSOLUTELY!!!! I just posted about this not 2 minutes ago!!!
Gabe Michalski
Merged in a post:
Cleanup after removing filler words
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Karen Schouest
It would be nice if Descript could clean up the punctuation after removing filler words instead of leaving the transcript riddled with punctuation oddities such as "? ," " , " " . " ". . " and many, many sentences that begin with a lowercase letter.
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